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Configuring your email settings on your iPhone
A quick guide to the key email settings available on your iPhone, from fetch frequency to signatures.
The iPhone Mail app gives you a good range of options for controlling how your email looks and behaves. Here is a walkthrough of the most useful settings.
Opening the mail settings
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Open the Settings app on your iPhone. Its location on your home screen may vary.
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Scroll down and tap Mail.
Fetch new data
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Tap Fetch New Data to control how often your iPhone checks for new messages.
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If your email service supports Push, you can enable it here so messages arrive as soon as they are delivered. Otherwise, set Fetch to check at a fixed interval - every 15, 30, or 60 minutes - or choose Manually to check only when you open the app.
Message display options
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Back in the main Mail settings, you can set how many messages to show at once and how many Preview lines to display beneath each subject line.
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You can also adjust the text size and choose whether to show To and Cc labels in the message list.
Signatures and default account
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Enable Always Bcc Myself if you want a copy of every sent message delivered to your inbox. You can also set a custom Signature and, if you have more than one account, choose which is your Default Account.
